Staff Engineer Aircraft Thermal Systems
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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About the Role
You will define aircraft thermal environments and create thermal-management solutions for critical installations. You will perform thermal and fluid analyses, design cooling hardware, manage requirements and risks, integrate hardware, support suppliers, and validate systems through qualification testing.
Requirements
- United States citizenship and an active Secret or higher security clearance.
- 7 to 12 years of aerospace thermal engineering, environmental control systems, or vehicle thermal and fluid-system development experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid-dynamics expertise.
- Hand-calculation, finite-difference, and CFD or thermal-analysis experience.
- Active and passive cooling-system design experience.
- 3D CAD modeling, hardware layout, routing, drawing release, and PLM workflow experience.
- COTS and custom aerospace component sourcing, supplier management, and test-setup experience.
Responsibilities
- Define aircraft-level thermal environments and thermal-management solutions.
- Perform heat-transfer and fluid-mechanics calculations and develop analytical, finite-difference, and CFD models.
- Design and evaluate active and passive cooling solutions.
- Generate thermal requirements, assess technical risks, and recommend designs.
- Develop thermal hardware layouts and CAD models and resolve system interfaces.
- Define verification test plans, design test rigs, support instrumentation, and correlate models with test data.
- Author technical specifications, evaluate suppliers, and drive prototype build and test.
- Execute qualification test plans and support airworthiness certification.
- Communicate thermal findings through design reviews and technical reports.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity